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Durbin Joins House and Senate Democrats in Filing Amicus Brief Urging Appeals Court to Stop Dangerous Texas Medication Abortion Pill Ruling from Taking Effect
240 members of Congress ask Fifth Circuit to stay the Texas district court ruling that threatens access nationwide to the medication abortion pill mifepristone
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Durbin, Senate Judiciary Democrats Urge Chief Justice Roberts to Investigate Justice Thomas’ Undisclosed Gifts and Take Action to Prevent Further Misconduct
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards
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Durbin Statement After Federal Judge Blocked Access to the Medication Abortion Pill Mifepristone
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after a federal judge in Texas blocked the use of the medication abortion pill mifepristone—which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved more than 20 years ago as safe and effective:
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Durbin Statement on Reports of Justice Clarence Thomas’ Acceptance of Undisclosed Luxury Gifts from Republican Megadonor
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on reports of 20 years’ worth of undisclosed gifts and troubling ethical conduct by Justice Clarence Thomas:
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Graham: Democrats’ Efforts To Destroy The Second Amendment Will Be Fought
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today spoke at a press conference on the Respect for the Second Amendment Act, which would codify Second Amendment rights for law abiding citizens.
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Graham Leads Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans On Introducing Bill To Codify Second Amendment Rights For Law Abiding Citizens
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Respect for the Second Amendment Act.
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Graham Statement on FBI Brief Regarding Kidnapping, Murder of South Carolinians in Mexico
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made a statement following a briefing from Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate regarding the recent kidnapping of four South Carolinians, two of which who were murdered, in Mexico.
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Graham: “We Are Going To Unleash The Fury And Might Of The U.S. Against These Drug Cartels”
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) today held a press conference on legislation that would combat the scourge of fentanyl in America and the violence caused by Mexican drug cartels.
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Durbin, Graham, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge President Biden to Support the ICC’s Investigation into Atrocities in Ukraine
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to President Biden urging his Administration to support the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into the atrocities committed in Ukraine.
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In Speech on Senate Floor, Durbin Honors the Work of Public Defenders Ahead of 60th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright
In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, honored public defenders ahead of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Court held that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a right of legal counsel to anyone accused of a crime.
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Durbin Probes DOJ, FDACoordination, Urges Enhanced Enforcement of Unlawfully Marketed Vaping Products
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf urging them to enhance interagency coordination to address unlawfully marketed vaping products, and requesting more information about their enforcement efforts.
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Durbin, Grassley Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Televise Supreme Court Proceedings in Real Time
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) led a group of their colleagues in re-introducing the bipartisan Cameras in the Courtroom Act today.
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Durbin Questions Witnesses in Judiciary Committee Hearing on Public Safety & Gun Safety Laws in a Post-Bruen America
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned three witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Protecting Public Safety After New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.”
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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement in Judiciary Committee Hearing on Public Safety & Gun Safety Laws in a Post-Bruen America
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “Protecting Public Safety After New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.”
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Durbin, Booker, Hirono Express Support for Proposed Amendments to Federal Sentencing Guidelines to Implement First Step Act Reforms, Among Other Priorities
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice & Counterterrorism, and U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) submitted a public comment letter to U.S. Sentencing Commission Chair Carlton Reeves regarding proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. This is the first amendment cycle of the newly-reconstituted Commission.
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Durbin, Padilla, Nadler, Jayapal Encourage USCIS to Maintain and Expand Access to Legal Immigration System in Proposed Fee Changes
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, and U.S. Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-NY-12) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07), Ranking Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, submitted a public comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposal to set new fees for requests for immigration benefits. In their letter, the lawmakers expressed their support for USCIS efforts to maintain equitable access to the legal immigration system and made recommendations to improve such access, including by lowering the proposed fee for the provisional unlawful presence waiver and incorporating backlog reduction into USCIS financial planning.
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Durbin, Booker, Whitehouse, Coons Raise Concerns about Proposed Changes to BOP Inmate Trust Accounts
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Chris Coons (D-DE), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a comment letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters regarding the Department of Justice (DOJ) and BOP’s proposed rule on the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program.
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Durbin Calls on Congress to Protect Children from Exploitation & Fix Broken Immigration System
In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today spoke about a recent New York Times article that raised serious concerns about the vetting of sponsors of unaccompanied non-citizen children and found large numbers of such children are being placed with exploitative sponsors and working long hours in dangerous conditions.
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Senate Confirms Maria Kahn to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Senate confirmed Maria Kahn to the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit. U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Justice Kahn’s confirmation:
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Durbin Urges the Senate to Swiftly Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act
During Women’s History Month, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor emphasizing the need to codify access to abortion and comprehensive reproductive health care rights for millions of Americans after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade last year. In his remarks today, Durbin expressed his support for the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which he and his Democratic colleagues reintroduced this week.